08:21 <mangelis> random shower thought: i wonder if there's a sweet spot at when it would make sense to have massively parallel computer with only and or xor lda sta opcodes?

14:51 <sorear> most of computer architecture can be looked at as a balancing act between the area of the core and the area of the attached memory

14:52 <sorear> you're describing something close to the original transputer, which had something like 256 bytes RAM per node and a very 8-bit instruction set